opinion
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Opinion | When Insurer system failures hit grieving families
When insurers reject funeral claims on over-insurance grounds, it is grieving families who pay for administrative failures beyond their control.
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Opinion | Before we get on the political bus
Before backing any party in the 2026 local government elections, young voters should ask three key questions about its ideas.
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Opinion| When good people keep quiet, evil prevails: Madlanga Commission fights corruption
The Madlanga Commission is rooting out corruption in the criminal justice system and restoring accountability across South Africa’s key institutions
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Opinion | Things fall apart: What Yeats and Achebe tell us about South Africa
Yeats warned that things fall apart when the centre cannot hold. Achebe showed how societies crack before the final blow. South Africa is listening.
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Opinion | Cape Town housing crisis why workers cannot afford homes
Rising housing prices, municipal tariffs and transport costs are pushing Cape Town’s workers farther from the city they serve daily.
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Opinion: Preaching peace in the age of outrage
John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ and gentle anthem of hope, remains painfully relevant with each year that passes.
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Opinion: One day the phone will stop ringing
A daily phone call becomes a meditation on presence, ageing and what children truly need from their fathers
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Opinion | Protecting children is everyone’s responsibility
In the province, more than 43 000 children are currently in foster care, while a further 2 800 children are being cared for in NPO-run child care centres.
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Opinion | Party-hopping in South African politics, when the jacket turns
In South African politics, the jackets keep turning. The real test, writes Namhla Monakali, is whether anything underneath ever does
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‘No man is an island, every man is a piece of the continent,’ poet, John Donne.
A reflection on violence, grief and why empathy matters in a world where suffering and conflict dominate daily life.
